"He became aware of Nineties hip hop wafting through the air like a wave of lab-engineered corporate oxygen, and saw that he was sitting in the teeming, cavernous space of a hotel lobby. Well dressed young men sat all around him hunched over their phones, their gazes occasionally darting around nervously like animals guarding their kills. He abruptly stood and began heading toward the reeption desk."
From one of the most influential artists of his generation comes a provocative, moving novella about what it means to be a creative person under today's digital regime. In the course of a gripping, headlong narrative, Price's unnamed protagonist moves in and out of contemporary non-spaces on a confounding and enigmatic quest, all the while meditating on art in the broadest sense: not simply painting and sculpture but also film, architecture, literature, and poetry. From boutique hotels and highway bridges to PC terminals and off-ramps; from Kanye West and Jeff Koons to George Bush and Patricia Highsmith; from the playground to the internet to the mirror, Price's hybrid of fiction, essay, and memoir gets to the central questions not only of art, but of how we live now.
In English
124 p.
ISBN: 0981546838